The White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy was a government entity in the United States created in 2008 by

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by Executive Order that existed for a little over two years when it was combined with another presidential office in April 2011. The office was created in order to coordinate administration

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on energy and

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. Under the Biden administration, has been succeeded by both the Office of Domestic Climate Policy and the Office on Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation.

History

The office was created in December 2008. Its first (and only) director was

Carol Browner Carol Martha Browner (born December 16, 1955) is an American lawyer, environmentalist, and businesswoman, who served as director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2011. Browne ...

, who was

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for the eight years of the

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Barack Obama administration

President Obama launched the

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, to facilitate candid dialogue among key developed and developing countries regarding efforts to advance clean energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. For the new forum, President Obama invited the leaders of 16 major economies and the Secretary General of the

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to designate representatives to participate in a preparatory session at the

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that occurred on April 27–28 in Washington, D.C. This and other preparatory sessions culminated in a 17-nation MEF meeting, as part of the 35th G8 summit which Italian Prime Minister

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agreed to host in

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in July 2009. The G8 summit was subsequently moved to

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, Italy, as part of an attempt to redistribute disaster funds after the

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. The forum took place on July 9, 2009.

Elimination

In April 2011, it was reported that Congress would no longer fund the office in the 2011 budget. On March 2, 2011 the White House announced that the climate and energy work done by the office would be transferred to the

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, thereby eliminating it as an office within the

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. It was succeeded in 2021 by the White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy, headed by the

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References

External links

White House Executive Office of the President
— list of offices {{United States government agencies involved in environmental science Defunct agencies of the Executive Office of the President of the United States Presidency of Barack Obama Energy policy of the United States Climate change policy in the United States Energy and Climate Change Policy

History

Barack Obama administration

Elimination

See also

References

External links